On Saturday, 30 November 2013 at 08:35:23 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
I need to pass around some objects(specifically int[]) that may
be used by several other objects at the same time. While I
could clone these and free them when the parent object is done
this wastes memory for no real reason except ease of use.
Since many objects may contain a ptr to the array, what would
be the best way to deal with deallocating them? I could wrap
the array in a collection an use ARC but is there a better way?
Is there something in std.allocators that can help?
(Should be obvious that I'm trying to avoid the GC)
You can use the Array type in std.container [1]. It uses ref
counting and the C heap internally.
[1] http://dlang.org/phobos/std_container.html#.Array
